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rax

/ɹæks/

rax verb: to stretch; stretch out.

Verb

rax (third-person singular simple present raxes, present participle raxing, simple past and past participle raxed)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To stretch; stretch out.
    • Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To reach out; reach or attain to.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To extend the hand to; hand or pass something.
    • Please rax me the pitcher.
    • Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—rax me the Queen, I say.1825, John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart, “Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XVIII”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 17
  4. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To perform the act of reaching or stretching; stretch oneself; reach for or try to obtain something
  5. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.

Noun

rax (plural rax or raxes)

  1. (slang) barracks
    • Eventually they just broke our base and took out every single one of our raxes.2014 March 19, 44:28, in Free to Play (Film), Clinton "Fear" Loomis (actor)

rax meaning in Tamil

rax in Tamil

நீட்டிக்கப்பட்ட

Forms of rax

Verb
third-person singular presentraxes
present participleraxing
past participleraxed
pastraxed
Noun
pluralrax
pluralraxes

Origin of rax

From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English rǣċan, ræċċan, reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to make straight”). Related to Dutch rekken (“to stretch”), German recken (“to stretch”), Swedish räcka (“to suffice, reach, pass, last”).

Shortening of barracks.

Words formed from rax

  • outrax

Words that rhyme with rax

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Questions about rax

What does rax mean?
Rax means to stretch; stretch out.
What is rax in Tamil?
Rax in Tamil is நீட்டிக்கப்பட்ட. See Rax meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rax?
Rax can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce rax?
Rax is pronounced /ɹæks/.
What is the past tense of rax?
The past tense of rax is raxed.

Words near rax in the dictionary

  1. rawstock
  2. rawstocks
  3. rawstyle
  4. Rawtenstall
  5. Rawtheyan
  6. rax
  7. Raxaul
  8. raxed
  9. raxes
  10. raxibacumab
  11. raxing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rax (page history and authors); rax (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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